That's right I upvote every post I can! Its nice to be here and I hope this place keeps growing like it is and takes the place of reddit. Have a great day!
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steakfries 42 points 3 years ago
for real. this feels so organic. i just had a chat in beehaws music community about classic rock and the beatles and rolling stones. feels good.
Caboose12000 36 points 3 years ago
I actually disagree. I think downvotes are very useful for when someone posts the wrong kind of content to a niche community without it necessarily breaking the rules. a good example would be reddit's r/bonehurtingjuice. a core element of a bhj is that the comic is unedited except for the text, so if someone posts a comic with an edited last panel that shows an extra character, it would make sense to downvote that post to indicate that it doesn't fit the sub well, even if the resulting comic was still funny/good.
idk maybe that's toxic, but I think it's a better solution than outright deleting content like that when the content might still have value
steakfries 9 points 3 years ago
hmmm thats an interesting dilemma, no upvotes means no way for users to bury "bad" content. But downvoting definitely contributes to "toxicity". its gonna be cool to see how this all plays out. i wonder because when youtube got rid of thumbs down i was upset, but part of me is happy there is no downvoting here. i think the difference is this place is "small" and so i feel a need to work with people to have an outcome we both like because its in both of our best interest. where as on a platform with millions of users you almost don't care what individuals think because there's tens of hundreds of thousands of more people that are gonna come along and my lizard brain just wants to be accepted by the masses. i mean it makes sense, we as humans havent had to deal with the opinion of millions until now, 100 years ago we'd all be worried about what Jeffery nextdoor thought of us or whatever.
egg360 8 points 3 years ago
That is the case in reddit, but here people tend to stick to the topic of communities, and even if someone posts something that doesn't fit in, our communities are small and a little bit of off-topic posting doesn't hurt anyone.
ghostmonster 7 points 3 years ago
Totally feel this way also.
stallmer 4 points 3 years ago
I think the solution is to report the post if it violates rules of the community. Reporting doesn't always mean it's racist, homophobic, etc. I haven't reported any posts on Lemmy (no need to yet), but on Reddit you could choose why you were reporting the post.
You can also just be more proactive in upviting the posts that you like. That will still bury bad posts.
GuyDudeman 15 points 3 years ago
Hahaha... I'm really glad that so many instances are blocking LemmyGrad.ml because those guys are major-league assholes. :)
*edit: For those of you who don't know what LemmyGrad is - it's tankies (they hate being called that, but that's the term for them)... hard-line communists who belittle anyone who isn't cool with mass-murder.
steakfries 12 points 3 years ago
drop the dirt lol whats going on over there?
carbon_based 4 points 3 years ago
tankies (they hate being called that
They literally have a tank in their logo! I always love some irony.
Variden3301 13 points 3 years ago
It feels homey. Like everybody is a close friend here
carbon_based 8 points 3 years ago
Voting is used differently here than it is on Reddit. Here we have no useless karma reputation collecting. So voting serves the sole purpose of sorting posts/comments by relevance. I used the downvote on Reddit very rarely but used to upvote frequently what i liked. Here, i would vote less but use downvotes more.
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There's really no reason to downvote in the kind of environment that Lemmy has created! Everyone is respectful and kind and every post is so wholesome!
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